Turkey: 241 Detained In Anti-drug Operations

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Tuesday said that 241 suspects were taken into custody during the counternarcotics operations in four provinces.

Soylu noted that ''Rooting Out'' operations were carried out on Tuesday in the Antalya, Ordu, Isparta and Erzincan provinces.

He added that 1,321 members of police and gendarmerie teams, 24 narcotic detector dogs and aircraft took part in the operation.

Soylu said: "In Antalya, 181 of the 187 suspects were detained. Drug dealers, manufacturers and those involved had been followed with a project over the last five months.

"It takes place within the framework of long-term monitoring and follow-ups in order to bring down a gang, drug sales network, and to deal the hardest blow to its manufacturing and trade."

He added; "The main reason why we do this is to convey the evidence to our courts in the most solid way."